lemmywinks

I think this is an important point to make. I'm going to guess that this may have not been the first time that day someone had made a veiled insult in the guise of an hilarious comment. Mrs. Lemmywinks used to work in a supermarket with a trans woman and she got daily abuse, snide comments and sniggering along with outright ridicule from members of the public in her place of work. She spent a good amount of time crying in the staff room and developed a lot of anxiety issues purely because other people wouldn't let her live her life without wanting to beat her down for it. So while it's nice and jolly for us to call people snowflakes, cry ad infinitum about everybody being so easily offended (whilst completely missing the irony of that) and think little jibes are ok it's worth remembering there are people who have to put up with this crap on a daily basis and what might seem like a harmless one off joke might be the straw that broke the camel's back. Basically life is much easier for everyone when you don't insist on being a complete @rsehole. Maybe the sound engineer would have been better having a little chat to the band, finding out what they actually think and altering their on stage mix accordingly.

That's what I thought. Shouting "you're not versatile!! then playing half a dozen technique variations (none of which are uncommon concepts) which all sound very similar even in isolation. Agree that a tone knob would be much more useful or maybe a notch sweep like on the old Hartke amps.

No doubt there's some great luthiers in Italy we don't know about in a similar way that most bass players outside the UK won't have heard of Shuker etc. I think at one time they made some half decent violins............

Where are they made? If they're EU built then the prices are in line with everybody else.

Overall volume is lower to my ears but generally they sound deeper with a fuller low end. If you're playing with guitars they might actually be more audible (obviously a lot of variables there but still) as they will sit underneath the guitar rather than competing with it. YMMV, I never liked those clanky bronze strings and struggled with them for years - trying to ape a steel strung acoustic guitar sound whereas nylons are their own thing and much more suited to what I need an acoustic bass to do. My cheapo battered Ozark acoustic with nylons and a defret sounds way better than I thought it ever could when I bought it. Also as I said above you change nylons when you break one, I bought mine used and they've been on there for over 10 years so in the long run they're the cheapest strings to use!

Looks like he's emptied his parts drawer on a body blank to me!

Well after squinting at the website for a couple of minutes they certainly haven't convinced me. Hard to believe the designer of those classy understated Arias is the same guy who produced those gaudy munters on there. The muddy stick drawing and hidden bass photos are a blessing in disguise really!

Got to admire the confidence in the product though. "Are we going to do the photoshoot for the website to showcase our expensive instruments?" "Nah why bother m8, these bad boys will sell themselves! Lets just spend 3 minutes on a Wix site and call it a day. Besides I've got my nephew to do a sketch on the back of a beer mat with a muddy stick so everybody will know what they look like."

Anyway here's my two things I like about it: 1) It has some ok looking woods, especially the matching battery box etc. 2) It has a decent enough preamp so should sound good.

There was 0 bids on it, the neck also looks like it's wonky. Maybe half a dozen more neck screws bolts would sort it out?

Looks like the late 70s was when he had that website designed never mind the basses.

They do the same bass in stained finishes, still made in Japan and looks like the same spec. The modern IGB shape makes for a tiny featherweight bass, I had one of the Chinese IGB55 versions and it weighed practically nothing. Just really light and compact but really comfortable to play.

Just noticed he's stuck Trebor Extra Strong Mints in the string through holes for no other reason than being completely mental. Could this be the work of everybody's favourite guitar converter?

You could put one of those high powered laser pens in for conveniently blinding @rsehole punters.

Looks like standard Fender factory routing to me....

Looks like someone created an eBay account just to do that and alert people to threads on various forums, not on really.

In every YT video his instruments sound awful and have fret buzz all over the place, he seems to promote these as perfect for beginners, easy to play and far better than a factory setup but ignores that he's hacked the nuts and bottomed out the bridges so much the end product is sonically offensive. I don't think he's all there really, his listings are deliberately deceptive though so I'm not sure where I stand on this. Just feel a bit sorry for any beginner who spends money they will never get back on his creations and will then have to spend more down the line to put it right when they realise what a decent guitar is supposed to play like. MDP himself is a learner player so I'm not sure where this supposed expertise is coming from.

Yeah definitely a Westfield, didn't know the model number. Some of the Vesters (Clipper?) have really nice woods, there's one near me for £150 but it's in red so looks a bit cheap.

I was going to say there's nothing that can't be fixed with a few hand tools and a cheap preamp until I saw this: Think it's a Westfield isn't it? Should be a solid enough project if anybody is feeling brave. Maybe we should start pooling money to buy these and just have them shipped directly to Andy's house for fun?* *Fun for us, not Andy.......

A poster here fitted Wilkinson saddles to a V2 P7, I know the V3 has a different bridge but maybe that would be a solution? The bridge really is something they should have redesigned on the Gen 2, the tuners are easily swappable and adequate but the bridge needs replacing IMO. If you want to keep through body stringing then it's a PITA - on my Gen1 V7 it worked but the break angle of the string got on my nerves.

Depends what value you put on your time really. Taking strings off a bass, going to the shops to buy meths, soaking strings overnight, drying them off, restringing, washing the meths off your pots and pans, being moaned at by your significant other for using the kitchen as your own personal bass laboratory, doing it all again when your strings sound dead after a couple of hours............. There's being on a tight budget and then there's just being tight! A pack of Warwick Red labels is £9.68...........

Instead of boiling your dead strings or soaking them in meths like some mad scientist simply stop being a tightwad and order some new ones from a guitar shop or online store, the end result will be the sound of a new set of strings which lasts longer than one gig and is much less time consuming than faffing about with metre long glass tubes or pans.

I started listening to these guys a while ago as they cover 80s and 90s theme tunes along with songs from the Transformers movie soundtrack (obviously). They started off doing small conventions etc, they're a fun band and I wouldn't read too much into the Zep cover. check out their Doom/Power Rangers medley and rendition of the Pokemon theme. And yes I would join them in a second, they do some fun gigs and I've always had a weird thing for Arcee.